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Water quality and the effects of changes in phosphorus loading to Muskellunge Lake, Vilas County, Wisconsin Water quality and the effects of changes in phosphorus loading to Muskellunge Lake, Vilas County, Wisconsin

Muskellunge Lake is a productive, eutrophic lake because of high nutrient loading. Historical data indicate that water quality has only slightly degraded since the early 1970s, possibly because of phosphorus input from effluent from septic systems. A detailed phosphorus budget for the lake indicated that most of the phosphorus comes from natural sources?ground water and surface water...
Authors
Dale M. Robertson, William J. Rose, David A. Saad

Water-quality assessment of part of the Upper Mississippi River Basin Study Unit, Minnesota and Wisconsin — Nutrients, chlorophyll a, phytoplankton, and suspended sediment in streams, 1996-98 Water-quality assessment of part of the Upper Mississippi River Basin Study Unit, Minnesota and Wisconsin — Nutrients, chlorophyll a, phytoplankton, and suspended sediment in streams, 1996-98

Stream water-quality data from part of the Upper Mississippi River Basin Study Unit (Study Unit) from 1995 through 1998 was used to describe the distribution of nutrients, chlorophyll a, phytoplankton, and suspended sediment; and the influence of natural and anthropogenic factors on reported concentrations, loads, and yields. During the study period, streamflows generally were near to...
Authors
Sharon E. Kroening, Kathy Lee, R. M. Goldstein

Residue depletion of oxytetracycline from fillet tissues of northern pike and walleye Residue depletion of oxytetracycline from fillet tissues of northern pike and walleye

The broad-spectrum antibacterial drug oxytetracycline (OTC) is used in the U.S. to treat certain diseases in salmonids and catfish. This study was conducted to support an extension of the OTC label to include all cool-water fish species cultured at U.S. public aquaculture facilities by satisfying human food safety requirements. Juvenile northern pike (Esox lucius; mean weight: 117 g) and...
Authors
Jeffry A. Bernardy, Chue Vue, Mark P. Gaikowski, Guy R. Stehly, William H. Gingerich, Allen Moore

Water quality of the Fox River and four tributaries in Green Lake County, Wisconsin, 2001–2002 Water quality of the Fox River and four tributaries in Green Lake County, Wisconsin, 2001–2002

The purpose of this report is to summarize the water-quality data collected on the Fox River and its tributaries in Green Lake County, Wisconsin, from November 2001 through August 2002. The goals of the project were to (1) determine the current water quality of the Fox River and selected main tributaries in Green Lake County, (2) assess the spacial variation of the water-quality...
Authors
David J. Graczyk, Herbert S. Garn

Data and methods of a 1999-2000 street sweeping study on an urban freeway in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Data and methods of a 1999-2000 street sweeping study on an urban freeway in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is required to control the quality of runoff from roadways under their control as part of the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System. One way to control roadway runoff is to use street sweeping to remove pollutants before they are entrained in runoff. This may be a good option because land is often unavailable or prohibitively expensive...
Authors
Robert J. Waschbusch

Sedimentation and sediment chemistry, Neopit Mill Pond, Menominee Indian Reservation, Wisconsin, 2001 Sedimentation and sediment chemistry, Neopit Mill Pond, Menominee Indian Reservation, Wisconsin, 2001

The volume, texture, and chemistry of sediment deposited in a mill pond on the West Branch of the Wolf River at Neopit, Wis., Menominee Reservation, were studied in 2001-2002. The study was accomplished by examining General Land Office Survey Notes from 1854, establishing 12 transects through the mill pond, conducting soundings of the soft and hard bottom along each transect, and...
Authors
Faith A. Fitzpatrick, Marie C. Peppler

Arsenic in southeastern Michigan Arsenic in southeastern Michigan

Arsenic levels exceeding 10 μg/L are present in hundreds of private supply wells distributed over ten counties in eastern and southeastern Michigan. Most of these wells are completed in the Mississippian Marshall Sandstone, the principal bedrock aquifer in the region, or in Pleistocene glacial or Pennsylvanian bedrock aquifers. About 70% of ground water samples taken from more than 100...
Authors
Allan Kolker, Sheridan K. Haack, William F. Cannon, D.B. Westjohn, M.-J. Kim, Laurel G. Woodruff

Safety of aquaflor (florfenicol, 50% type a medicated article), administered in feed to channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus Safety of aquaflor (florfenicol, 50% type a medicated article), administered in feed to channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus

Aquaflor, a feed premix containing the broad spectrum antibacterial agent florfenicol (50% w/w), is being developed for use to control enteric septicemia (ESC) in channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus caused by the gram-negative enterobacterium Edwardsiella ictaluri. The recommended dose of Aquaflor to control ESC is 10 mg/kg body weight (BW)/day for 10 days. The study objective was to...
Authors
Mark P. Gaikowski, Jeffery C. Wolf, Richard G. Endris, William H. Gingerich

Annotated bibliography of selected references on PCB and the Kalamazoo River Superfund Site, Michigan, 1982-2002 Annotated bibliography of selected references on PCB and the Kalamazoo River Superfund Site, Michigan, 1982-2002

Fifty six publications pertaining to the Kalamazoo River Superfund Site Publications stored in the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality Environmental Response Division site files are summarized. Publications are presented chronologically within four categories: PCB releases, PCB remediation, PCB safety, and PCB testing and cleanup. The text consists of bibliographical information...
Authors
Andreanne Simard

Effects of lampricide exposure on the survival, growth, and behavior of the unionid mussels Elliptio complanata and Pyganadon cataracta Effects of lampricide exposure on the survival, growth, and behavior of the unionid mussels Elliptio complanata and Pyganadon cataracta

The effects of a 12-h exposure to the lampricide 3-trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophenol (TFM) and a combination of TFM and 1% niclosamide (active ingredient in Bayluscide 70% wettable powder) on the short and long-term (10 mo post exposure) survival and behavior of two unionid freshwater mussel species Elliptio complanata and Pyganadon cataracta were measured. Growth of juvenile E. complanata...
Authors
D. L. Waller, T.D. Bills, M.A. Boogaard, D.A. Johnson, T.C.J. Doolittle

Efficacy of hydrogen peroxide in controlling mortality associated with saprolegniasis on walleye, white sucker, and paddlefish eggs Efficacy of hydrogen peroxide in controlling mortality associated with saprolegniasis on walleye, white sucker, and paddlefish eggs

The efficacy of hydrogen peroxide in controlling saprolegniasis on eggs of walleye Stizostedion vitreum, white sucker Catostomus commersoni, and paddlefish Polyodon spathula was evaluated at four private, state, and federal production hatcheries participating in an Investigational New Animal Drug efficacy study (experiment 1; walleyes) and in a laboratory-based miniature egg jar...
Authors
M.P. Gaikowski, J.J. Rach, M. Drobish, J. Hamilton, T. Harder, L.A. Lee, C. Moen, A. Moore
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